wyszukanych pozycji: 20
The Language of American Popular Entertainment: A Glossary of Argot, Slang, and Terminology
ISBN: 9780313224973 / Angielski / Twarda / 1981 / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Product information not available.
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328,23 zł |
The Cambridge Guide to American Theatre
ISBN: 9780521835381 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 774 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This new and updated encyclopedic guide, with over 2700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history to the present. Entries include people, venues and companies scattered through the USA, plays and musicals, and theatrical phenomena. Additionally, there are some 100 topical entries covering theatre in major US cities and such disparate subjects as Asian American theatre, Chicano theatre, censorship, Filipino American theatre, one-person performances, performance art, and puppetry. Major popular forms are represented in entries such as circus,...
This new and updated encyclopedic guide, with over 2700 cross-referenced entries, covers all aspects of the American theatre from its earliest history...
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754,67 zł |
Variety Entertainment and Outdoor Amusements: A Reference Guide
ISBN: 9780313214554 / Angielski / Twarda / 1982 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "This is a useful reference work for popular culture and performing arts collections." Choice
"This is a useful reference work for popular culture and performing arts collections." Choice
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328,23 zł |
Sound Bites: A Lifetime of Listening
ISBN: 9780997409185 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A lifetime collection of interviews, essays, and reviews of music and the artists who create it. During a conversation on Bob Edwards' radio show some years back, longtime CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace indicated that he had forgotten most of the thousands of interviews he ever conducted. Several years before his death, Pete Seeger said that he could remember only a few dozen songs, if that, when he once knew hundreds. Ramblin' Jack Elliot appeared on T.V. the other night and told the host, "You know why I'm sure I played the Newport Folk Festival? 'Cause... A lifetime collection of interviews, essays, and reviews of music and the artists who create it. During a conversation on B... |
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144,83 zł |
George Frederick Cooke: Machiavel of the Stage
ISBN: 9780313214875 / Angielski / Twarda / 1980 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. George Frederick Cooke was a member of that select company of legendary actors -- Garrick, Kemble, Henderson, Kean -- who dominated the English stage during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was the first important actor to cross the Atlantic and to play the theatres of the new United States. Don B. Wilmeth's extensive research in Cooke's journal and in many other contemporary sources provides us with a new appreciation of the actor's importance.
George Frederick Cooke was a member of that select company of legendary actors -- Garrick, Kemble, Henderson, Kean -- who dominated the English sta... |
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382,94 zł |
Sound Bites: A Lifetime of Listening
ISBN: 9780997409178 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A lifetime collection of interviews, essays, and reviews of music and the artists who create it. During a conversation on Bob Edwards' radio show some years back, longtime CBS News correspondent Mike Wallace indicated that he had forgotten most of the thousands of interviews he ever conducted. Several years before his death, Pete Seeger said that he could remember only a few dozen songs, if that, when he once knew hundreds. Ramblin' Jack Elliot appeared on T.V. the other night and told the host, "You know why I'm sure I played the Newport Folk Festival? 'Cause... A lifetime collection of interviews, essays, and reviews of music and the artists who create it. During a conversation on B... |
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98,47 zł |
Making Others Rich First: The Real Estate Investors Sure-Start Guide
ISBN: 9781943164974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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91,28 zł |
Sacred Nature Oracle
ISBN: 9781582708768 / Angielski / Other / 2022 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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108,90 zł |
Plays by William Hooker Gillette: All the Comforts of Home, Secret Service, Sherlock Holmes
ISBN: 9780521284318 / Angielski / Miękka / 1983 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This volume includes All the Comforts of Home (1890), Secret Service (1895) and Sherlock Holmes (1899).
This volume includes All the Comforts of Home (1890), Secret Service (1895) and Sherlock Holmes (1899).
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231,76 zł |
The Music of the Louvin Brothers Heaven's Own Harmony
ISBN: 9780773407824 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bill Malone, noted historian and author of Country Music USA, calls the Louvin Brothers 'the most important vocal duet in the history of country music'. This book pays tribute to the Louvins, placing their music in perspective and context. The author conducted extensive interviews with Mr. Charlie Louvin, the surviving brother, and other sources include interviews with Chet Atkins, Don Everly, and Gordon Stoker of the Jordanaires. Country singer Emmylou Harris speaks of the great influence the Louvins had on her late vocal partner, country-rock pioneer Gram parsons. The Louvins toured...
Bill Malone, noted historian and author of Country Music USA, calls the Louvin Brothers 'the most important vocal duet in the history of country music...
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376,41 zł |
John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor
ISBN: 9780521620284 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. John Barrymore's Richard III and Hamlet, first seen in New York during the 1919-20 and 1922-23 seasons, stand as high-water marks of twentieth-century Shakespearean interpretation. Michael Morrison reconstructs these historic performances through analysis of the production preparation, audience response, reviews, and memoirs. Tracing the Victorian and Edwardian antecedents of Shakespearean performance, this book situates Barrymore's distinctive contribution in light of past and ensuing tradition. As well, it provides a biographical sketch of one of the most revered and tragic actors of the...
John Barrymore's Richard III and Hamlet, first seen in New York during the 1919-20 and 1922-23 seasons, stand as high-water marks of twentieth-century...
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523,27 zł |
John Barrymore, Shakespearean Actor
ISBN: 9780521629799 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. John Barrymore's Richard III and Hamlet, first seen in New York during the 1919-20 and 1922-23 seasons, stand as high-water marks of twentieth-century Shakespearean interpretation. Michael Morrison reconstructs these historic performances through analysis of the production preparation, audience response, reviews, and memoirs. Tracing the Victorian and Edwardian antecedents of Shakespearean performance, this book situates Barrymore's distinctive contribution in light of past and ensuing tradition. As well, it provides a biographical sketch of one of the most revered and tragic actors of the...
John Barrymore's Richard III and Hamlet, first seen in New York during the 1919-20 and 1922-23 seasons, stand as high-water marks of twentieth-century...
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188,42 zł |
Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860
ISBN: 9780521563871 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 advances the idea that cultures are performances that take place both inside and outside of playhouses. Americans imaginatively expanded conventional ideas of performance as an activity restricted to theaters in order to take up the staging of culture in other venues--in issues of class, race, and gender, in parades and the visits of dignitaries, in rioting and the denomination of prostitutes, and in the views of the town, the city, and the frontier. Joining up-to-date historical research with a firm and clear-headed grasp of contemporary critical theory,...
Theatre Culture in America, 1825-1860 advances the idea that cultures are performances that take place both inside and outside of playhouses. American...
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542,96 zł |
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
ISBN: 9780521472043 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 543 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The first multi-volume history of the American theater to have been published, The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater in all its dimensions. It recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance, and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. Volume One brings together the work of ten major authorities on American theater and drama. Like each of the three volumes, Volume One includes an extensive overview and timeline followed by chapters on specific aspects of American theater up to c. 1870.
The first multi-volume history of the American theater to have been published, The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-...
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720,21 zł |
A History of African American Theatre
ISBN: 9780521624725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 634 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This definitive history of African-American theatre embraces companies from across the U.S., as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African-American companies touring Europe, Australia and Africa. Representing a catholicity of styles, from African ritual to European forms, amateur to professional, and political nationalism to integration, the volume covers all aspects of performance. It includes minstrel, vaudeville, and cabaret acts, as well as shows written by whites that used black casts.
This definitive history of African-American theatre embraces companies from across the U.S., as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African-American ...
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252,42 zł |
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
ISBN: 9780521679848 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 610 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Volume Two begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theater up to 1945. It discusses the role of vaudeville, European influences, the rise of the Little Theater movement, changing audiences, modernism, the Federal Theater movement, major actors and the rise of the star system, and the achievements of notable playwrights. This volume places American theater in its social, economic, and political context.
Volume Two begins in the post-Civil War period and traces the development of American theater up to 1945. It discusses the role of vaudeville, Europea...
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237,66 zł |
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
ISBN: 9780521679831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The first multi-volume history of the American theater to have been published, The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater in all its dimensions. It recognizes changing styles of presentation and performance, and addresses the economic context that conditions the drama presented. Volume One brings together the work of ten major authorities on American theater and drama. Like each of the three volumes, Volume One includes an extensive overview and timeline followed by chapters on specific aspects of American theater up to c. 1870.
The first multi-volume history of the American theater to have been published, The Cambridge History of American Theatre is an authoritative and wide-...
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365,05 zł |
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
ISBN: 9780521679855 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Volume 3 of this authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater examines the theater after World War II, through Broadway and beyond, as well as regional theater across the country. Contributors also analyze new directions in theater design, directing, and acting, as well as key plays and playwrights through the 1990s.
Volume 3 of this authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater examines the theater after World War II, through Broadway and beyond, as w...
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382,44 zł |
The Cambridge History of American Theatre
ISBN: 9780521669597 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Volume 3 of this authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater examines the theater after World War II, through Broadway and beyond, as well as regional theater across the country. Contributors also analyze new directions in theater design, directing, and acting, as well as key plays and playwrights through the 1990s.
Volume 3 of this authoritative and wide-ranging history of American theater examines the theater after World War II, through Broadway and beyond, as w...
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542,96 zł |
Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906
ISBN: 9780521035170 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906 examines how the American frontier was presented in theatrical productions during the critical period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of film. From famous personages such as Mark Twain and "Buffalo Bill" Cody to lesser known individuals such as Native American playwright and actress Gowongo Mohawk, Hall examines the plays, the players, and the playwrights who helped to define the American westward migration in theatrical terms and covers the complete dramatic experience including scenery, performance, and staging.
Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906 examines how the American frontier was presented in theatrical productions during the critical period from...
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243,66 zł |